Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 51 05 May 2025, 18:52

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 51 0 0 0 0 51 6 0 6 12:4.139 Passed
Feature System memory erasure on shutdown
As a Tails user when I shutdown Tails I want the system memory to be free from sensitive data.
24.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.589
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.439
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.453
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.866

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I kill the allocating process 0.897
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.564

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
26.762
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.807
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.492
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.912

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 861 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.861
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.374

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I umount "/mnt" 0.524
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.789

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 861 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
55.762
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.209
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.483
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.265
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.031

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 5.698
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.589

Pattern coverage: 87.418% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 2.600
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.702

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.216
And I read the content of the test FS 0.619
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.382

Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.438
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.525

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:18.757
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.475
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.460
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.821
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.787

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.762
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.309

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.797
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.381

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.291
And I read the content of the test FS 0.426
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.516

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.521
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.205

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.001
58.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.712
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.429
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.070
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.261
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.205

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.336

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:0.015
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:15.505
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.477
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.682
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.335

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 922 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.010